[cmath] CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY’S 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE WINNER

[Graham Wright]

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CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY’S 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE WINNER

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to award the 2009 
CMS Doctoral Prize to Dr. Mark Braverman (Toronto).

The award will be presented at the Society’s Winter Meeting in 
Windsor, Ontario (December 2009).

Mark Braverman’s work is motivated by questions on how computability 
and complexity theory affects our understanding of real-world 
phenomena. The main part of his thesis contains ground-breaking work 
on the computability and complexity of Julia sets.  An early version 
of some of his results appeared in the Journal of the AMS (joint with 
Michael Yampolsky).  He has worked on projects in a wide range of 
areas of mathematics and computer science including stochastic 
processes, algorithms, game theory, machine learning, computer-aided 
verification and automated image processing.  More recently, he has 
also worked on derandomization, pseudorandomness, and applications of 
information theory to communication complexity.  Braverman’s work has 
opened up new avenues of research in dynamical systems and computer 
science, and will be of lasting significance to both fields.

Mark Braverman won a gold medal at the 2000 International Mathematical 
Olympiad. He received his B.A. in Mathematics with Computer Science at 
Technion, in Israel.  After studying mathematics at Yale, he completed 
a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto under the 
supervision of Stephen Cook.  After postdoctoral work at Microsoft 
Research, New England, Braverman will take up a tenure line position 
at the University of Toronto in July 2010, jointly in mathematics and 
computer science.

For more information, contact:


Dr. Graham P. Wright
Executive Director
Canadian Mathematical Society
director at cms.math.ca
(613) 733-2662


Dr. Edward Bierstone
Chair, CMS Research Committee
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto
chair-resc at cms.math.ca
(416) 978-4347








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